Hacker News: wyck

New comment by wyck in "IronClaw: a Rust-based clawd that runs tools in isolated WASM sandboxes"

wyck — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:26:15 +0000

You mean llia Polosukhin, who is recognized as an AI founder and co‑authored the landmark 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need" while at Google Research? /s ?

New comment by wyck in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

wyck — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:44:22 +0000

It's become a national issue, I think China will be at the forefront with the USA, and ASML/Europe will certainly stay in the mix. I'm no expert, but Russia is lagging in this industry, this has a very direct effect on their capabilities moving forward. Have a look at https://substrate.com/

New comment by wyck in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

wyck — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:09:51 +0000

They are funding alternatives to ASML. ASML has hit a wall and it co-insides with a new innovation based policy, to bring America back to a tech leadership role. This is a critical economic and security policy, they are pouring billions into this tech as we speak. To think that ASML will continue to have a monopoly would be the actual insane thing.

New comment by wyck in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

wyck — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:29:02 +0000

Correct, but these fees are trending up and not down, its not uncommon in this space to see payment fees hitting 15%. Removing the primitives of payment requirements, rails which are hard to build and practicably a monopoly, would free the state, this would power end-users instead of building more monopolies.

New comment by wyck in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

wyck — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:01:03 +0000

Imagine you have a home on Airbnb , your guest sends you a payment, but its not directly to you, the payment goes through the payment rails stipulated and controlled by airbnb. This amounts to what is often 25-35% of your listening fee (payment charges, visa network, listing fee, etc, etc.) This is the middle men crypto is supposed to replace.

Only a trustworthy network can replace the current system, it must be something public, immutable and participatory , otherwise it will just centralize back to the above scenario, regardless of any intent. Essentially crypto is network code, it creates the primitives on transmission. And thus anyone (really anyone) can run a node and get a reward for supporting this security model. That's not a scam or even just pragmatic, its literally how money operates, as a incentive/disincentive mechanism.

People forget the early stock market was filled to the brim with scams, the original intent was good, but it attracted bad actors piggy backing in its lack of regulations, and it took years to clean-up, one can make an easy argument that's its still filled with fraud.

New comment by wyck in "Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation"

wyck — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:58:09 +0000

Agree, also the logging is very limited across the board,, database functions are impossible to debug without good logging, I think a lot of people don't realize its not a direct copy of Postgres, for the cloud version several Postgres functions are disabled by default.

New comment by wyck in "The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2"

wyck — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:51:56 +0000

99.9% of app on app store connect to the network for a multitude of reason, do you really think only browsers connect to the internet? Do you not have an app on your phone?

New comment by wyck in "The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2"

wyck — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 01:41:16 +0000

This isn't obvious, 99% of apps make multiple calls to multiple services, and these SDK's are embedded into the app. How can you tell whats legit outbound/inbound? Doing a fingerprint search for the worst culprits might help catch some, but it would likely be a game of cat and mouse.

New comment by wyck in "The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2"

wyck — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 01:36:46 +0000

Install a network monitor or go even deeper and sniff packets.

New comment by wyck in "El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender"

wyck — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:39:45 +0000

That's what cold storage is. And more than likely cold storage they requires multiple signatures, to prevent any single entity from being compromised.

New comment by wyck in "El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender"

wyck — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:10:59 +0000

It's likely in cold storage , but the tracker is using the wallet address.

For example, about 1 hour ago they bought 1m in BTC: https://bitcoin.gob.sv/tx/83ddfe67485d322e9c017d8ba6aee53d8f...

The address is : 32ixEdVJWo3kmvJGMTZq5jAQVZZeuwnqzo

New comment by wyck in "El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed experiment"

wyck — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:08:29 +0000

I pasted the wrong link, corrected the above with .gov.sv domain .

New comment by wyck in "El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender"

wyck — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:14:55 +0000

They have made just over 300 Million off the initial BTC purchase, and as of 15 minutes ago, continue to buy BTC everyday.

They even have their own tracker, https://bitcoin.gob.sv/

New comment by wyck in "How to build a 50k ton forging press"

wyck — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 18:14:20 +0000

Some machine porn I found about the the biggest(?) press in the world in L.A. by Weber metals, I think it's 60k tons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOe8KYZXGeg

New comment by wyck in "Mike Mageek is dead"

wyck — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:46:43 +0000

The shop didn't last long and only published 2 book, it's now an dentists shop. More info here about the shop and other Page strangeness, including the shop's logo. https://ledzepnews.com/2024/02/21/the-history-of-jimmy-pages...

New comment by wyck in "Kraken claims it is being 'extorted' as hacker demands reward after $3M theft"

wyck — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:10:20 +0000

What Certik did will be a case study in how to not disclose bugs, this was so poorly done it's been handed over to the authorities for possible illegal activity. https://x.com/c7five/status/1803403565865771370

New comment by wyck in "Canada's extremist attack on free speech"

wyck — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:47:23 +0000

The comparison to George Orwell's "thoughtcrime" is apt, but zooming out, I think Canada is paving the way to "Brazil", the Gilliam movie which was originally called 1984½. The dystopian future is totalitarian, but ruled through inept bureaucracy. The Ministry of Information controls everything and is responsible for nothing. This shift in control structures can be seen in the Hate Speech Bill, Bill S-210, the CRTC Streaming bill, and the massive increase in government jobs and roles.

New comment by wyck in "Cult of the Dead Cow – Veilid (2023)"

wyck — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:31:41 +0000

The CDC was formed at an actual cow slaughterhouse. Know your history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow

New comment by wyck in "I moved my blog from IPFS to a server"

wyck — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:56:00 +0000

I build a blog in IPFS, its basically reliant on several centralized services to actually work in browsers (DNS , GitHub, Fleek, etc). I wrote about how I build it here, the experaince was underwhelming. https://labcabin.eth.limo/writing/how-site-built.html

New comment by wyck in "Ledger's NPM account has been hacked"

wyck — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:16:22 +0000

You can see a technical analysis here https://twitter.com/Neodyme/status/1735337711555285261 , this is a JS repo for app integrations for Ledger and really has nothing specifically to do with Ethereum itself or any hardware. There are several wallets solutions that make transactions easier and more secure for people using Eth, but Eth is a protocol running a network and doesn't concern itself with the app layer, and rightly so.